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Meanings of holier-than-thou in anglès
Excessively or hypocritically pious.
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Examples for "sanctimonious"
Examples for "sanctimonious"
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The problem with January is that they can also be downright sanctimonious.
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Quickly she scurried away from the holy house-andthe curate's sanctimonious stare.
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Travis gave her a sanctimonious look, hiding the BlackBerry screen from view.
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Despite his sanctimonious arrogance, I hoped to God Claudel was right, too.
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To suddenly get sanctimonious about what is published online and called news?
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Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.
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As Lord Brougham says, we have no right to give ourselves pharisaical airs.
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Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
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Why should this pharisaical little bird make one feel a criminal?
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They always were, from first to last, narrow, pedantic, one-sided, legal, technical, pharisaical.
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All these things are full of pharisaic vanity.
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Thus, then, my mother now, commanding that hideous deed with a mind at peace in pharisaic self-righteousness.
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That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child.-Ifthe child ill-treats the cat, say:
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This largely resulted from the Pharisaic instinct that assumes superiority over other men.
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A woman prefers one measure of frivolity to nine measures of Pharisaic sanctimoniousness.
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After the usual amount of pietistic verbiage by way of introduction the Manifesto said:
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They were connected in his memory with atrocious tedium, pietistic insincerity, and humiliating contacts.
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He not only disliked, but openly ridiculed all signs of a special pietistic bearing.
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Dr. Cumming's mind is evidently not of the pietistic order.
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We can think of God's Kingdom and righteousness only in the light of the pietistic.
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Here you see the end of a nation which shares your pietistical aptitudes.
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I present extracts from the account of Cambronne, which he suspects may have given the pietistical Quakers a pain.
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So it is with a pietistical and puristical people-theywill follow some stupid old bellwether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination.
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Everyone's out to prove a point in the most self-righteous way possible.
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Feel free to leave indignant and self-righteous comments below-butno spoilers, please.
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It was, of course, inappropriate, and there were shrieks of self-righteous anger.
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He questions everything with vigor as a self-righteous anger smolders within him.
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She always did her Jesus walk when she was feeling particularly self-righteous.
Usage of holier-than-thou in anglès
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With lots of holier-than-thou charitable interests in this here dark continent, right?
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Didn't you hate me for my miserable holier-than-thou preachment that day, Wes?
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She would think about what she'd said without my holier-than-thou response.
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It's not that much holier-than-thou in the plus-size fashion world either.
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With poise and high-paced energy, Church Clothes isn't preachy or holier-than-thou.
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I knew that holier-than-thou attitude was nothing more than a sham.
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She was joined in this grotesque campaign by Imran Khan, the holier-than-thou cricketer-turned-politician.
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Even when I was a kid, I always thought she wasn't just holier-than-thou.
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You're making small-talk with some holier-than-thou stranger who sounds like Queen Lizzy herself.
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In the flat upstairs lives Deborah, played with perfect holier-than-thou-edness by Leslie Ash.
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This last chastisement wipes the smug, holier-than-thou look off his face.
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And certainly not in favour of that holier-than-thou little cow, Melissa!
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So don't be so damned holier-than-thou about a man like LePic.
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These holier-than-thou types can't seem to accomplish anything without it.
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He also couldn't resist taking a holier-than-thou tone toward his tail-between-their-legs Tea Party foes.
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He'd like to see any of the smart-mouthed nurses or holier-than-thou doctors top that.